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Bassline Design History

Jonathan Siegel graduated Cornell Engineering with a BS in Computer Science in the Spring of 2000. Several computer graphic courses tied his love of visual arts (Fine Arts Award at Princeton Day and New Jersey Governor's School Finalist for Visual Arts, 1996) with his degree in computer programming. In 1999 he built his first database driven web site for his band, The Uplifters.

During winter and summer sessions, Jonathan was schooled off-the-clock by his friends in the graphic design department at CDK Net, NYC, where he worked as a programmer developing audio-visual media. After graduating, he took his first official position as a graphic designer and programmer at Tradeworx in NYC. In 2001 he left NYC to the hills of Western MA to independently pursue music, graphic design and programming.

Throughout that time, The Uplifters band afforded Jonathan with hands-on business and marketing experience as well as print design practice for albums, posters and stickers. He quickly began applying these new skills to the projects of other music and general-business entrepreneurs.

Today, Jonathan is focusing on his Flash skills at Enlighten working on Flash sites for Audi and more.

Tools Used

· Mac Powerbook G4 running OSX

· Windows Microsoft PC machines for cross-platform browser testing

· Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Image Ready

· Macromedia Flash

· Macromedia Dreamweaver

· Canon Digital Rebel SLR camera

· Canon Digitial Video Camcorder

· Paint, ink, pencil and paper

· PHP

· MySQL databases

· (also C, C++, Java, PERL, CGI, ASP in the past, but, prefer not to now)

· Resources, skills and knowledge of several other designers at Positronic Design (including specialists in Quark, 3D rendering, Book layout and publishing)

Positive Connections

Bassline Design works closely with Positronic Design in Western MA. Since the summer of 2003, Positronic Design has afforded Bassline Design endless resources and over 15 years of retail design experience in producing and printing professional quality designs, building powerful web-based programming applications and 3D animation technologies. Check out Positronic Design online for more details.